From the archive
81 posts
My private tour of Scaled Composites took place in 1988 or 1989. I was working in Lemoore California and was one of the people on the team to help organize the NAS Lemoore Airshow and had traveled to Salinas and several other areas that had reputations for good airshows. If I remember correctly Scaled Composites had a couple of their
I am quite excited about Mondays flight that if it succeeds will result in a significant event in manned spaceflight. The first ever successful private launch into space. I am sure their will be Television coverage of the launch and being I am laid up in bed recovering I will definitely be tuned in. My dad who does not follow
Seems like 321Studio's has a target on their forehead. No company in recent time has had to defend it's product line as much as they have. I want everyone to really think about what has been happening over there. They have been attacked again and again for one reason only, companies, organizations do not want you the consumer to have
Six Apart has announced new pricing for MT version 3.0 and I am quite happy with their decision. Having put my money where my mouth is I had already purchased an upgrade. I strongly believe that Six Apart has a long term vision for the product and having programmers on the payroll who are focused and have a team vision.
When I travel I tote a Desktop replacement laptop with me. Some of you will say why do you do that. The answer is simple my trips are usually up to a month long and I don't move around much. I have a need though to carry electronic pubs into the field and hauling around that laptop just does not
A very interesting software application. The website explains it all but I have included this paragraph of information. "XPCREATE is a utility program that will combine an original XP distribution and assorted hotfixes and updates to produce an up-to-date XP Distribution CD. XPCREATE allows the user to define custom installations and setup programs, but it's main richness lies in the
Very interesting list of Howto's [Howto]
Anyone can run a rouge radio station (with limited range) with a little work and some ingenuity. Engadget has a nice little article and with a bit of searching around the net you can come up with a radio station with significant range. [Engadget]
Sneaker Net seems to be growing in popularity with those that share movies. Seems Movie trading is down on the P2P networks and people are going underground and only trading with people they can trust. Portable hard-drives have made it more easier to sneaker net movies and music alike. [USA Today]
Those of you that are long term readers will remember we went into a lot of details about recordable media becoming corrupt over time. Apparently this issue is starting to get some mainstream attention in that there are some proposals on the table to include a rating of the media quality. In my opinion this is long overdue. [PCWorld]
Seems there is a weblog dedicated to Netflix with ordering and shipping hints and talks about delivery times. I wonder how many people in Hawaii subscribe to Netflix to this date I have never talked to anyone here that has used their service. [Netflix Odyssey]
Linksys and Maxtor have teamed up to offer a wireless device that will allow you to hook up a hard-drive to it. I am going to get one of these as soon as they are available as I have some spare drives laying around that could go to good use. [Cnet]
Page 6 of 7